I intended to go to some regular sessions, but changed tack and spent the day in Moscone West at the Unconference instead. Chalk & Talk: The Core Performance Fundamentals Of Oracle Data Warehousing (Greg Rahn, Database Performance Engineer, Real-World Performance Group @ Oracle): I’m not a DW guy and I don’t work with Exadata kit, [...]
The Develop day is my first conference day, but I guess for most people it is Day -1. After purposely leaving my calendar empty, I ended up filling the day quite well. What Are We Still Doing Wrong? by Tom Kyte: It’s always a pleasure to hear Tom speak. He always has a good balance [...]
What is this years big OpenWorld announcement? It’s not Oracle Database 11g Release 2, that’s already been announced and released. It’s not Exadata 2, that’s already announced. So what can be so important it has relegated 11gR2 and Exadata to pre-OOW announcements, so as not to detract from the real message? The Oracle Games Console. [...]
I didn’t really take many photos in San Francisco, but here’s two shots I thought were worth posting… First the DeLorean. Why didn’t Larry pack the Database Machine into one of these? From OpenWorld Next, a photo taken on Friday morning, after the conference was over. Believe it ot not, this was the road with [...]
This is the 3rd OpenWorld I’ve attended and I think it was probably the most enjoyable for me so far. The first year I was more than a little overwhelmed and intimidated by everything. The scale of the event is hard to imagine and being surrounded by people who are at the top of their [...]
Today was a very full day… Real-World Database Performance Techniques and Methods Real-World Database Performance Roundtable I went to the primer session on Tuesday and both sessions today. I don’t think there was anything particularly new to me here, but listening to the experiences of a team like that helps you crystallize things in your [...]
Despite feeling under the weather I managed to get in a pretty full day… Oracle VM Scalability and Manageability with HP Takehome messages: Paravirtualization (PVM) works at near base hardware speed. Hardware virtualization (HVM) is significantly slower than paravirtualization. HVM can have up to 8 LUNs, while PVM can have up to 26 LUNs. Oracle [...]
I’ve decided to pull out of my unconference session. The main reason for this is I started to feel a little unwell last night. I got back to the hotel at 19:00, threw up and went straight to bed. I was hoping it was just because I was over-tired, but this morning I have a [...]
Due to other commitments, I only made it to 2 presentations today… Executive Panel: Oracle and Open Source: The session was a seeded question and answer session to highlight Oracles commitment to “Free” software downloads, Open Source and Open Standards. If you follow the subject areas, I guess you know the score. The standout points [...]
Update: I had to change the time slot… I’ve signed up to do an Unconference session on Wednesday 10:00 in Overlook C. The session is called, “Virtualization: What is it and why should you care?” It will be about 30 minutes presentation, then a discussion. It’s an overview session and not product-specific. Hopefully it will [...]